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This promotional directory for the year the 1895 features a history of St. Louis, a listing and description of major businesses and industries operating in St. Louis, and photographs of landmarks and buildings.

An illustration of the St. Louis Custom House and Post Office in 1892. As appears on page 56 of Pen and Sunlight Sketches of St. Louis, a promotional directory of buildings, monuments, and businesses.

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$7952”;/€.¥%€5f%/i%fk>5'71c0M5 West on Arsenal streetto Jefferson avenue, thence south Via _[efferson avenue and Broadway to Caro;i- dolet; returning Via same route. The Mound City railway runs from Fourth and Pine streets, west on Pine street, north on Ninth street, west on St. Louis avenue to the fair grounds; returning Via St. Louis avenue, south on Fourteenth and Twelfth streets, east on Locust street to Ninth, south to Pine street and east to Fourth street. The .\Iarket street line is another popular one, running; fa‘:-:n Fourth and Market streets, west on ;\[arket street, north on Sixth street, west on Chestnut street, south on Twentieth street, west on .\larl<et street and Manchester road to Towe" Grove avenue; return ing .' \'lZ1 .\~lanchester road and Clark avenue to Twentieth street, north on Twentieth to ;\Iarket street, thence east on Market to Fourth street. This road passes the court— _ house, Grand Opera house, Real Estate Exchange, public library, natatorium, city " ‘A hall, etc. The population,and value of property on these lines have had an increase 3 {Z ‘ of about thirty per cent since their advent. The cable roads have been equally Pfog - ‘ perous and important in the development of the city: the v L‘US'l‘()\I H()L'SF. .—\‘.\'I) I’()>"|' (>I"l"lL'l<'., various lines are known as follows: Citizens’ cable, ;\Iissouri (‘able railway, Northern Central, People's line, etc. The combined 1'()£lLl>' carried in 1890, 68,105,561 pa<:\-encrers, and it is the universal Verdict that they are cared for more coinfortal)l_\' and with a less tnnnber of accidents than in any other large CH)’ “'l1€FC Illpitl transit has been adopted. In order to reach :1n=>tl‘.e:‘ section of the city we return

Photograph of the St. Nicholas Hotel on Locust Street between Eighth and Ninth Streets. The building was originally designed by Louis Sullivan and built in 1893. It was redesigned and expanded after a fire in 1905 and ultimately demolished in 1974. It was later known as the Victoria Building.